Monday, May 30, 2016

Tolkien Studies 13: an announcement

On behalf of myself and my co-editors, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, here are the expected contents of volume 13 of the journal Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. All of the works are now in the hands of our publisher, West Virginia University Press, and the volume is scheduled to be published in softcover and on Project MUSE later this year. - David Bratman, co-editor

Tolkien Studies 13 (2016)

Simon Cook, "The Cauldron at the Outer Edge: Tolkien on the Oldest English Fairy Tales"

Paul Acker, "Tolkien's Sellic Spell: A Beowulfian Fairy Tale"

John D. Rateliff, "'That Seems To Me Fatal': Pagan and Christian in The Fall of Arthur"

T.S. Sudell, "The Alliterative Verse of The Fall of Arthur"

Dennis Wilson Wise, "Book of the Lost Narrator: Re-Reading the 1977 Silmarillion as a Unified Text"

Jeremy Painter, "'A Honeycomb Gathered from Different Flowers': Tolkien-the-Compiler's Middle-earth 'Sources' in The Lord of the Rings"

Michael Potts, "'Evening-Lands': Spenglerian Tropes in The Lord of the Rings"

Matthew M. DeForrest, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Irish Question"

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Book Reviews

In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations, by J.S. Ryan, reviewed by Christopher Gilson

Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey, edited by by John Wm. Houghton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff and Robin Anne Reid, reviewed by Valerie Estelle Frankel

The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, reviewed by Sarah Beach

Arda Inhabited: Environmental Relationships in The Lord of the Rings, by Susan Jeffers, reviewed by Kristine Larsen